Alexei Serebryakov was a Russian singer, opera performer and vocal teacher. He was born in Tambov on February 23, 1869, into a merchant family.
In 1892, he graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied singing with the Italian teacher E. Talyabue. That year, he performed the solo part in Hector Berlioz’s oratorio The Flight into Egypt, conducted by V. Safonov.
From 1894 to 1896, Serebryakov performed with the Saratov Opera. In 1900, he appeared in Yekaterinburg, where he was the first performer of the role of Vladimir Dubrovsky in the opera Dubrovsky, based on Alexander Pushkin’s novel. His vocal partners included I. Barsov, S. Ilyashevich, E. Melodist, K. Numa-Sokolova, M. Ryshkov and I. Sokolov. One of his most prominent students was opera singer V. M. Politkovsky.
Serebryakov was married to a singer, and they had five children: Catherine, Vera, Maria, Adrian and Pavel, who became a pianist. Serebryakov died in Tsaritsyn in 1920.